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SUBMITTER: de Winter J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3688764 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
de Winter Joost J Happee Riender R
PloS one 20130620 6
Concerns exist within the medical and psychological sciences that many published research findings are not replicable. Guidelines accordingly recommend that the file drawer effect should be eliminated and that statistical significance should not be a criterion in the decision to submit and publish scientific results. By means of a simulation study, we show that selectively publishing effects that differ significantly from the cumulative meta-analytic effect evokes the Proteus phenomenon of poorl ...[more]